When Rhetoric Dies Lyrics - After The Eulogy - Boy Sets Fire

We raise the flags and statues to our mission 

We've spoken out in slogans and in campaigns 

Talked and talked on almost every issue 

Where oppression of the masses is the constant theme 

But what does this mean to a little town in Iowa 

Where the jobs have gone down-stream, down-south, down-and-out 

Where their fingers used to work to the bone all day 

Profits rise and fall and starvation is a game 

Where is the food that used to cover their table 

Where is the sense of pride at the end of the day 

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To the face of a thriving corporation 

What could a dying family possibly say 

On the face of every American worker 

Is the constant fear that their job will not remain 

As the CEO is planning his vacation 

To kill or be killed is the nature of the beast 

Where is the food that used to cover their table 

Where is the sense of pride at the end of the day 

To the face of a thriving corporation 

What could a dying family possibly say 

Stand in line, take a number, you sell your soul 

Then watch it crumble 

Into a pile of rubble that used to be 

Your job 

Your life 

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Your family's daily bread 

Dry and stale malnourished kids 

The house is sold for a degrading bid 

Do we continue to talk 

Or do we take a hammer to their chains 

To their chains ...